Thoughts on Painting and Drawing

Hello again, I wanted to write about the painting that I love to do and teach others. I also wanted to write about how important having some drawing skills is needed to be able to render your painting well. You really need to understand drawing in its most basic forms such as just thinking in simple terms like lines, shapes, forms, and textures. Having a basic understanding of how a flat 2 dimensional picture is transformed into a realistic 3 dimensional picture by using shading, forms and other drawing techniques will greatly improve your confidence when you do finally pick up the paint brush. What you need to realize is that the drawing is really just a "guide" for you to be able to use in order to start painting with your paints. Your eventually going to just cover this "guide" over with paint anyway so it doesn't really matter if it is a rough drawing quickly layed in with a piece of flint charcoal. Because you have to remember that using a pencil is alot easier to use than a paint brush. Lay in your drawing by possibly using a grid to help you get a more accurate drawing then when you have your drawing in and you know where you are going to start painting your subjects you can adjust the picture by changing the position of your shapes with your paint brush. Bottom line is don't get too stressed about the drawing process because you are really only using it as a "guide" so you know where you are going to start to paint. Enjoy!